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The Power of One Idea

June 24, 2020June 26, 2020 Jeffrey Howard 2 Comments Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Pragmatism, William James min read

William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.

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Our Sacred-Scientific, Psychedelic Future

April 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Nicholas McCay 0 Comments Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Transcendence min read

Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.

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Can Social Technologists Solve the Atomization Problem?

January 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Jonah Bennett 1 Comment Atomization, Community, Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Liberalism min read

To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.

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How Deconstructing Anxiety Makes Transcendence Possible

November 8, 2019March 1, 2020 Todd E. Pressman 0 Comments Emotional Well-being, Transcendence, Truth min read

With the understanding that fear is the fundamental problem in being human, we have our starting point. To pursue this quest, we must fully deconstruct anxiety, reveal its origins and mechanism, and find its resolution.

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‘The School of Life’ Preaches Pessimism over Romanticism

November 5, 2019March 12, 2020 Jeffrey Howard 0 Comments Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Well-being, Emotions, Essential Reading, Romanticism, Schooling min read

‘The School of Life’ is on a crusade to avail us of our emotional ignorance. Philosopher Alain De Botton seeks to remedy the shortcomings of contemporary education systems and the institutions that have failed to instruct us in how to approach the big questions in life.

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Haste Makes Waste

August 7, 2019June 1, 2020 Finn Janning 0 Comments Death, Emotional Well-being, Soren Kierkegaard min read

Haste becomes waste is intimately tied to the fact that many people have forgotten to inhabit their body, too eager to get somewhere else.

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Why D&D Is a Popular Form of Communal Therapy

July 10, 2019June 1, 2020 Malek Samman and Christopher Porzenheim 11 Comments Community, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Well-being min read

Dungeons and Dragons, the popular tabletop role-playing game challenges players to improve their moral character, emotional intelligence, and social skills.